Velarion Records
Follow this permit Velarion Records emails you this permit’s record, cited to the public filing, and tells you when the register changes it. Free.
We’ll email you a link to confirm. The continuous daily watch on every change is the paid alert. Unsubscribe any time.
Also free: The Pay Desk, the weekly executive pay briefing.

Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TX0135151

GREENS PORT CRUDE BY RAIL TERMINAL, Houston, TX: NPDES TX0135151 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

GREENS PORT CRUDE BY RAIL TERMINAL, held by GREENS PORT CBR LLC, holds NPDES permit TX0135151. EPA’s file records it issued November 12, 2014 and expiring September 1, 2017. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedGREENS PORT CRUDE BY RAIL TERMINAL
Permittee as filedGREENS PORT CBR LLC
NPDES IDTX0135151
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedNovember 12, 2014
Expiration dateSeptember 1, 2017
AddressHouston, TX 77015
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedLower Greens Bayou (HUC 120401040606)

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
pH2153June 30, 2015
Oxygen demand, chem. [high level] [COD]171March 31, 201596% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant280
Carbon, tot organic [TOC]160
Petrol hydrocarbons, total recoverable160
Aluminum, total [as Al]020

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES TX0135151.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

Watch this permit

One permit holder, $99/month. Watch the register for one permit holder and the places and receiving waters tied to its permits. Choose “One permit holder” and enter this permit’s NPDES ID, TX0135151.

Start the watch

How often?
  • One permit holder — $99/month
  • One watershed — $2,990/year
  • One state — $4,990/year
  • The whole register — $18,000/year

How we handle your data → Privacy

EPA publishes a free Detailed Facility Report for every permit on ECHO: its compliance status quarter by quarter, its inspections, and its enforcement actions and penalties. EPA also sends free notices of new inspections and enforcement actions through ECHO Notify; enter NPDES ID TX0135151 there.

Nearby on the register

Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.

What this page shows

This public-records page covers NPDES permit TX0135151, held by GREENS PORT CBR LLC for the GREENS PORT CRUDE BY RAIL TERMINAL in Houston, TX, which EPA's file records as issued November 12, 2014 and expiring September 1, 2017, and now administratively continued. The page lists 6 pollutants on file, of which 5 are under a numeric limit, 6 have a violation of any kind, and 2 have an effluent exceedance. The receiving water is listed as impaired under 303(D), within the Lower Greens Bayou subwatershed, HUC 120401040606.